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Stonington, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bay de Noc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49878. The Survey maps it on the Peninsula Point quadrangle.

Stonington within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stonington between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPOINT
6 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesESCANABA DPS 19-3940 - 2019
18 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPENINSULA
15 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresHiawatha National Forestnot named
10 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHiawatha National ForestK-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonington in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindStonington$1,000The Delta County Road Commission reported a few minor trees down blocking a lane on County Road 511 in Stonington. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 2014Heavy RainStonington-The observer nine miles south of Rapid River measured 1.72 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
June 2011Heavy RainStonington-The observer in Stonington measured 5.38 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. The observer southeast of Bark River measured 4.24 inches over the same period.
June 2006Heavy RainStonington-0.55 inches of rain fell in 10 minutes.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindStonington-Numerous trees down on power lines on the Stonington Peninsula.
August 2008HailStonington-no account filed
July 2007HailStonington-no account filed
March 1998HailStonington-no account filed
July 1997HailStonington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Escanaba4.9 miles8
Larch6.6 miles9
Wells6.6 miles9
Lake Bluff7.5 miles9
North Escabana (historical)7.7 miles9
Maywood7.9 miles9
Soo Hill8.6 miles9
Groos9.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621783. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.